pts which give us the measure of the extent to
which the island was Roman rather than Keltic--at least in respect to
its political history.

Bonosus, himself, had British blood in his veins although born in Spain,
for his mother was a Gaul; but as he is called "Briton in origin," we
may infer that his father was from our own island. Probus allowed the
Britons the privilege of _growing vines and of making wine_.

In the last ten years of the third century events thicken. The revolt of
Carausius, the assumption of the empire by Allectus, and the adoption of
Constantius Chlorus by Diocletian as Caesar, are events of ethnological
as well as political influence. This they are, because they indicate
either the introduction of foreign elements into Britain, or the
infusion of British blood in other quarters. Carausius, for instance,
was a Menapian, and he is not likely to have been the only one of his
times. The Constantian family, I believe, to have been more British than
even the usual opinion makes them.

A little consideration will tell us that the three names of this
important pedigree--Constans, Constantius, and Constantinus, have no
etymological connexion with the substantive _Constantia_; in other
words, that _Constans_ does not mean the _constant Man_, just as
_prudens_ means the _prudent_, or _sapiens_ the _wise_. No such
signification will account for the forms in -_ius_ and -_inus_. To this
it may be added that the family was of foreign extraction, as were the
families of nearly half the later emperors. The name, I believe, was
foreign also. If so, it was most probably Keltic; since _con_, both as a
simple single term, and as an element of compounds is a common Keltic
proper name. The only fact against this view is the descent of the first
of the three emperors--Constantius. He was not born in either Gaul or
Britain. On the contrary, his father was a high official in the Diocese
of Illyricum, and his mother, a niece of the Emperor Claudius;[10]
circumstances which, at the first view, seem to contradict the inference
from the name. They do so, however, in appearance only. The most
unlikely man to have been high in office in Illyricum was a native
Illyrian; for it was the policy of Rome to put Kelts in the Slavonic,
and Slavonians in the Keltic, provinces; just as, at the present moment,
Russia places Finn regiments in the Caucasus, and Caucasian in Finland.
If this view be correct, a Keltic name is evidence, as fa